Author: Keith Coates Palgrave
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1920572740
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 2589
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This third edition of Trees of Southern Africa has been updated, revised and expanded by Meg Coates Palgrave. It features new simplified keys based on leaf characteristics, and incorporates updated names, reclassifications and new species. All known indigenous trees and many naturalised aliens occurring in southern Africa, south of the Zambezi-Cunene rivers, are included. Accompanying the descriptions are comprehensively revised maps reflecting up-to-date distribution, and drawings of a characteristic leaf and / or fruit. Other features incllude English and Afrikaans common names, notes on medicinal or magical properties and an illustrated glossary. A comprehensive, user-friendly guide, it will appeal to tree enthusiasts and professional botanists across the sub-continent.
Author: R. K. Brummitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: G. E. Gibbs Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Mary Gunn
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780869611296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
Author: Craig Hilton-Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered plants
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: T. H. Arnold
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Author: Southern African Botanical Diversity Network
Publisher: Sabonet
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: Keith Coates Palgrave
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Author: Gideon F. Smith
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128140089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae) in Southern Africa: Classification, Biology, and Cultivation provides a highly readable, illustrated account of the Kalanchoe species. The book includes an overview of the family Crassulaceae and genus Kalanchoe in global and subcontinental contexts that is followed by information on the taxonomic history of the genus. The characters and ecology of the species are also discussed, including their distribution ranges, where they occur, their habitat preferences, and where the species were formally recorded for the first time. For each indigenous and naturalized species, comprehensive taxonomic, descriptive and other information of interest is provided. This is the must-have resource for plant scientists, plant taxonomists, ethnobotanists, herbarium curators, ecologists, pharmacologists, invasions scientists, horticulturalists and landscape designers. - Includes currently accepted scientific names and synonyms, common names in English, morphology, cytology, chemistry, toxicology, biogeography, pollination biology, dispersal, cultivation, biocultural applications, and more - Contains a dichotomous identification key and descriptions, providing much needed tools for accurate species identification - Provides an extensive sets of illustrations for all species
Author: Roger Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: 1486311458
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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An easy-to-read introduction to the world of plant names and how to write, pronounce and remember them.
